'Father of the turf', Bunbury was well known in fashionable and
sporting circles. He owned the horse 'Diomed' which won the Derby
Stakes in 1780 and 'Eleanor' which won the Derby and the Oaks
in 1801. He was MP for Suffolk for forty years.

He married Lady Sarah Lennox,
daughter of Charles, 2nd Duke of Richmond but the marriage was
dissolved by act of parliament in 1776.